Re: [PATCH] Make fetch-pack play nicer with servers which do not speak multi_ack

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 25, 2005, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510260150400.31269@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vll0hcgv3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > You're right. Complete common refs are sent even if they are ancestors 
> > of other complete common refs. I'll think about that.
> 
> I think you should be able to do something similar to what
> git-show-branch --independent does, except that the current
> show-branch implementation sucks.

I have a patch simmering, but I hesitate to send it out, lest you go and put it into master before I found the obvious bugs ;-)

> It wastes one-bit per ref head, which is not too bad if we deal only 
> with branches (who would sanely keep more than 29 branches in a repo 
> except Jeff ;-) [...]

Well, I do! I *love* topic branches. Sometimes I even interrupt my regular work to create a random one ;-)